Classic Books on my Bucket List

I’ve been quietly following The Classics Club blog for some time now wishing I could join but scared of making the commitment. As per the rules, I need to commit to a minimum of 50 classic books in 5 years!!! I am unable to plan for the next 5 days properly, how on earth can I make a commitment for 5 years?

Then I went over my list of books I have read this past year, and then I read the list of books on The Classics Club page and realized…hey, I am already reading these. How hard is it to actually publish the list of books you anyway plan to read.

So, here we go…here is my very ambitious list of 50 classic books that I plan to read from now till 2017.

What do you think of the list? Do you have any suggestions on books that I can add to the list? Have you read the books on this list? Any thoughts/comments on these?

And if I am inspiring you to join up the Classics Club, please do let me know…it would be great to embark on this reading journey together

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It’s funny, I seem to have read quite a few in the first half of the alphabet and very few in the second half… Good luck with your challenge

Nishita

@disqus_mUBrEiIQ5D:disqus thanks. Right now, the challenge is slumbering quite a bit. Have gotten pretty distracted with the new and shiny books coming my way. Hoping to get back into classics sometime next month. Let’s see

Piyush Chourasia

I have read 13 of the 50 books listed by you, many more are in my TBR, though I doubt I would read the unfinished Austen novels (having read the 6 novels and Lady Susan).

Nishita

@piyushchourasia:disqus I haven’t been very motivated to read the Classics of late though. It’s funny I read so many classics when I hadn’t planned to. But now, that I have made a plan, announced it on my blog, and put up a book list, I just can’t seem to get through it

Piyush Chourasia

Do let me know, if you would like to do them in a group read format, going through a classic from your list once every 2 months, I should be able to fit it in my reading schedule.

Five-Eyed Bookworm

I can’t commit to more challenges but I decided I’d start a personal perpetual challenge starting this 2014 to read a classic per year. That’ll probably result to reading only a few haha.

http://dreamzandclouds.wordpress.com dreamzandclouds

You have inspired me to give a thought on it.

http://cupandchaucer.wordpress.com Udita Banerjee

Also, I’ve read Jo’s Boys and Little Men, both great books. Ibsen’s Doll’s House is one of those works which I’m not sure how I feel about.
And One Hundred Years of Solitude is a book that everyone should read or attempt to read. It is a book for life.

Nish

@Udita: Good to know that Jo’s Boys and Little Men turned out good for you. I was concerned they might be a little preachy.

http://cupandchaucer.wordpress.com Udita Banerjee

This sounds fun, I may jump in come 2014!

Nish

@Udita: Do, do. It’s quite an easy going group, and you can pace yourself the way you want to. That may not always be a good thing as this year my classic reading has really slumped >.<

Really interesting list We have a few titles the same. This year I’ve read Wide Sargasso Sea and Little Women, and I really liked both. Happy reading!

http://nishitak.com Nish

@jessicabookworm: Really? I need to come over and look at your list. I’ve read Little Women and Good Wives, but want to finish the rest of the books in the series. I am dying to read Wide Sargasso Sea, just holding off until I finish reading my current crop of books, which somehow are not so interesting, seeing the state of mind I am in right now

http://gargisharma1.wordpress.com Gargi Sharma

I like your list! We’ve got many titles in common. I’d love to read your reviews

http://jillianreadsbooks2.wordpress.com/ Jillian ♣

This is a great list! I’m excited to see Anne Bronte and a couple Alcotts up there! Welcome to the club.

http://thebookishreviews.blogspot.com Elizabeth

I am very much tempted to follow you…Let me think about it

http://nishitak.com Nish

@Elizabeth: Oh, do join me. I am really looking for company

http://tiensblurb.wordpress.com Tien

Good Luck with your project
I just read Watership Down last month and it was such a ride!
The Handmaid’s Tale is the freak-est ever! In a very good reading way

http://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com The Classics Club

Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead is such a great book! It’s so hilarious, especially if you’re a fan of Hamlet.

muneer

i think u have to include works of authors like milan kundera
and gabriel garcia marquez

http://nishitak.com Nish

@muneer: I have included One Hundred Years of Solitude by GGM and plan to read it in the near future. I have read couple of other books by him – Love in the time of Cholera (which I didn’t much care for), and Chronicle of a Death Foretold (which I loved).

You are right about Milan Kundera, I didn’t really think of him. What books by him do you suggest?

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